• 60 Seconds with Swett: Sticks and Bricks in ’26?

    by | Apr 21, 2026 3:29 pm | 60 Seconds, Developments

    The talk around new development is getting a lot more serious in the seniors housing industry, leading us to wonder if our 2024 prediction of “Sticks and Bricks in ‘26” may actually come true, somewhat. Back then, we may have thought that interest rates would have come down a bit more by now, but that the FOMO of getting involved in seniors... Read More »

  • Wyoming SNF Sale Sets New State Record

    by | Apr 21, 2026 3:27 pm | Acquisitions

    There was a new record set for skilled nursing pricing in the state of Wyoming with the sale of Big Horn Rehabilitation and Care Center in Sheridan. Built in the 1960s, the facility features 128 beds and was 61% occupied. It was owned by a regional operator that was looking to recycle capital.  Before the marketing process, Evans Senior... Read More »

  • Owner/Operator Acquires Facility Out of Bankruptcy

    by | Apr 21, 2026 3:26 pm | Acquisitions

    A senior care facility in Worcester, Massachusetts, sold as part of a bankruptcy process with the help of Patrick Burke and Toby Siefert of Senior Living Investment Brokerage. Built in 1970, Donna Kay Rest Home features 60 licensed beds in 31 units, providing a higher level of care and supervision than assisted living but at a lesser acuity than... Read More »

  • Civitas Sells Community to Clarion

    by | Apr 21, 2026 3:25 pm | Acquisitions

    Hap Knowles and Nick Stahler of the Knapp-Stahler Group at Institutional Property Advisors announced that they led the sale of a seniors housing community in the Phoenix, Arizona MSA, to the fast-growing real estate investment firm Clarion Partners. The deal appears to be The Retreat at Alameda, a 110-unit assisted living/memory care community in... Read More »

  • Blueprint Handles Recapitalization

    by | Apr 21, 2026 3:24 pm | Acquisitions

    Blueprint handled the recapitalization of Forest Hills Commons, a 2017-developed, 119-unit assisted living/memory care community in the Louisville, Kentucky MSA. A Louisville-based senior living owner/operator/developer engaged Blueprint in the third quarter of 2025 to begin the process. The asset demonstrated strong in-place performance and... Read More »
Diversified Healthcare Trust Transitioning 66 Communities

Diversified Healthcare Trust Transitioning 66 Communities

by | Jul 20, 2021 4:09 pm | Acquisitions

A few months ago, Diversified Healthcare Trust announced it would transition 108 of 228 senior living communities managed by Five Star Senior Living to new operators. It has now found three operators to take over management of 66 of them with 4,084 units, or 62 units per community.  The 108 communities have approximately 7,500 units, while the remaining 120 communities have about 18,000 units. So, the communities being transitioned to new operators are much smaller (average of 69 units) compared to the retained communities, with an average of 150 units.  Naperville, Illinois-based Charter Senior Living will be taking over management of communities in... Read More »
Care Investment Trust Partners With Phoenix Senior Living

Care Investment Trust Partners With Phoenix Senior Living

by | Oct 20, 2017 7:01 am | Acquisitions

Care Investment Trust joint ventured with Phoenix Senior Living for the second time this year, acquiring a 68-unit assisted living/memory care community in Albany, Georgia. Built in 1999, the community was formerly owned by the Phoebe Putney Health System, a not-for-profit health network in southwest Georgia. It now brings Phoenix’s operating portfolio to eight communities across the Southeast, not including three projects currently under construction. Jay Miele and Brady Stern of Hammond Hanlon Camp LLC advised Phoebe Putney on the transaction. Earlier this year, Care Investment Trust and Phoenix Senior Living partnered to acquired a 64-unit memory care community in Fayetteville, Georgia... Read More »
Two Southeast Sales from Senior Living Investment Brokerage

Two Southeast Sales from Senior Living Investment Brokerage

by | Apr 26, 2017 9:02 am | Acquisitions

Brad Clousing of Senior Living Investment Brokerage showed his strength in the Southeast, closing two transactions in Georgia and Florida. He first helped a partnership exit the seniors housing industry with the sale of their 64-unit memory care community in Fayetteville, Georgia (20 miles south of Atlanta). The partnership hadn’t been together long (the facility only opened in 2013), but a death within it affected the lease-up process and prompted the sale. The purpose-built community is currently 81% occupied, and working towards stabilization. Since it’s still in lease-up, it was offered at a slightly discounted price per unit, selling for $11 million, or $171,875 per unit. New... Read More »